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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, which depicts the adventures of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years.
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Harold Fry novels volume 1
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Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting various characters along the way and reminiscing about the events of his past and people he has known, as he tries to find peace and acceptance.
5) Ivanhoe
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Scott's classic historical romance, set in the twelfth-century England of Richard I, depicts the adventures of the heroic Wilfred of Ivanhoe in winning the hand of beautiful Lady Rowena.
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When Bertie Wooster, a blundering, but well-meaning bachelor, returns home to London after spending time in the Canes with his aunt and cousin, he discovers that his valet, Jeeves, has been advising an old friend on love. Gussie, Bertie's school friend, is head-over-heels in love with a young, whimsical lady named Madeline. Unsure what to do with his crush, Gussie turned to Jeeves in Bertie's absence, happy with the help he received. Bertie, however,...
7) Longbourn
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[2013]
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A reimagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the drama of the Bennet household from the sideline viewpoint of Sarah, an orphaned housemaid.
8) Slingshot
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Spycatcher novels volume 3
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm
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Will Cochrane -- MI6's, and now the CIA's, most prized asset and deadliest weapon -- is ordered to recover a mysterious document stolen by a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SRV) traitor working for a former high-ranking East German Stasi officer.
9) The fall
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CHERUB novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
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When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive. Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning ...CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them.
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Clarenceux trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
438 pages : map ; 21 cm
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William Harley, the English Clarenceux King of Arms, is guarding a sacred document, but when it is stolen Harley worries that its contents could fuel a Catholic-Protestant civil war and he must turn to the notorious pirate Raw Carew for help.
12) Hope
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Bernard Samson novels volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996
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Viking
Pub. Date
2013
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xi, 416 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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Marrying the much-older king of England in the year 1002, sixteen-year-old Emma of Normandy is surrounded by a treacherous court and regarded as a threat by her husband before drawing on her wits to gain a few friends and protect her station.
15) Bad blood
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A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER ... For Readers of who enjoy detective novels with a little British humour.
A robbery gone wrong, Detective Joe Rafferty thought, when the latest murder victim, wealthy widow, Clara Mortimer was found battered to death in her home. Then Rafferty learned she wasn't a widow at all - and her estranged husband was living in the same block under a false name.
But that's not the only suspicious aspect...
16) The break line
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Max McLean novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"British intelligence operative and hardened assassin, Max Maclean, battles a nightmarish enemy in this stunning debut thriller from an award winning war correspondent. When it comes to killing terrorists, British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on--Max Maclean. As an assassin, he's never missed, but Max has made one miscalculation and now he has to pay the price. His handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a seemingly one-way mission....
17) Close call
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Liz Carlyle series volume 8
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
While investigating an arms deal in Yemen, Liz Carlyle and her counter-espionage team discover that the weapons being sold during the Arab Spring have originated in the UK.
19) The forest house
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Avalon series volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994
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xi, 416 p. ; 24 cm.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Description
One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.
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